Google honours actress and singer Marlene Dietrich - LNBN 31

Dec 27, 2017.

Google honours actress and singer Marlene Dietrich.

Marlene Dietrich was a German actress and singer who held both German and American citizenship.

Dietrich was noted for her humanitarian efforts during the war, housing German and French exiles, providing financial support and even advocating their US citizenship.

For her work on improving morale on the front lines during the war, she received several honors from the United States, France, Belgium, and Israel. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Dietrich the ninth-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema.

So Google honors Marlene Dietrich and changing its logo in 24 countries to a doodle, is welcomed around the world.

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Dietrich's family nicknamed her "Lena" and "Lene" . Around age 11, she combined her first two names to form the name "Marlene". Dietrich attended the Auguste-Viktoria Girls' School from 1907 to 1917 and graduated from the Victoria-Luise-Schule in 1918. She studied the violin and became interested in theater and poetry as a teenager.

Dietrich continued to work on stage and in film both in Berlin and Vienna throughout the 1920s. On stage, she had roles of varying importance in Frank Wedekind's Pandora's Box, William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew,A Midsummer Night's Dream, as well as George Bernard Shaw's Back to Methuselah and Misalliance.

It was in musicals and revues such as Broadway, Es Liegt in der Luft, and Zwei Krawatten, however, that she attracted the most attention. By the late 1920s, Dietrich was also playing sizable parts on screen, including roles in Café Elektric (1927), Ich küsse Ihre Hand, Madame (1928), and Das Schiff der verlorenen Menschen (1929).

In World War II, Dietrich is a noted American artist and also noted German exiles in Germany and France, who provided financial support and advocated for US citizenship. On 6 May 1992, Dietrich died of renal failure at her flat in Paris at age 90. Her funeral ceremony was conducted at La Madeleine in Paris, a Roman Catholic church on 14 May 1992.

Dietrich's funeral service was attended by approximately 1,500 mourners in the church itself including several ambassadors from Germany, Russia, the US, the UK and other countries with thousands more outside. Her closed coffin rested beneath the altar draped in the French flag and adorned with a simple bouquet of white wildflowers and roses from the French President, François Mitterrand.